1944 animated short film directed by Joseph Barbera
The Zoot Cat
Title card
Directed by
Bill Hanna Joseph Barbera
Story by
Jerry Mann
Produced by
Fred Quimby[1][2] (uncredited on original issue)
Starring
Bill Hanna Jerry Mann Sara Berner
Edited by
Fred MacAlpin[2]
Music by
Scott Bradley
Animation by
Ray Patterson Ken Muse Irven Spence Pete Burness[1][2] Assisted by: Tony Ligerra Barney Posner[3]
Layouts by
Harvey Eisenberg[2]
Color process
Technicolor
Production company
MGM Cartoons
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[1][2]
Release dates
January 27, 1944 (1944-01-27)
(Premiere)
February 26, 1944 (1944-02-26)
(USA)
October 7, 1950 (1950-10-07)
(Reissue)[3]
Running time
7:03[1]
Language
English
The Zoot Cat is a 1944 American Technicolor one-reel animated short and is the 13th Tom and Jerry short.[4] It was released to theatres on February 26, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[1]
^ abcde"The Zoot Cat (1944)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
^ abcdeWebb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) (Second ed.). McFarland & Company Inc. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
^ abBaxter, Devon (6 December 2017). "Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944)". Cartoon Research. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
^Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 149–150. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
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